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It’s been a long, tough week, so we’re just chillin’, shooting the breeze and talking about the MYRIAD things we’ve watched over the past week and a half. Plus, we talk about a Scream movie without yelling at each other!

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark and CoRri shoot the breeze about getting older, getting drunk, and getting that good sleep
[21:40] What we watched! (Midnight Run, Milk & Serial, Jaws 2, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Rituals, The Boston Strangler, The Funhouse, The Dark Half, Sweet Smell of Success, Scream 2, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Robot Jox, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Cuckoo, Arcadian, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man)

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Having read MORE maritime history this summer, Corrigan tells Marko about the seafarer’s scourge of scurvy, and Mark asks some deep questions about Gremlins.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about scurvy
[49:43] Marko has been “in the wars” and is a bit worse for wear after his holidays; he explains his eye procedure; and at our four year anniversary, we found out some things a human child can do at four years old
[64:30] Cultural exchange!: sticker book edition. Plus, is James Marsden’s career weird?
[78:00] What we watched! (Edge of the City, In the Heat of the Night, The Slumber Party Massacre, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Mister Creep, Beast, Source Code, Night of the Zombies, Inside Out 2, Gremlins 2, Oddity, Alien: Romulus
[1:53:50] Romulus spoilers
[1:58:51] We discuss some pressing questions about the Mogwai/Gremlin life cycle!

Stuff we referenced:

• A Nightmare Disease Haunted Ships During Age of Discovery
• Scurvy: By the End, Death is a Mercy
• James Lind: The man who helped to cure scurvy with lemons
• History of scurvy and use of vitamin C in critical illness: A narrative review.

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Marko is on vacation with is fam, so Hollywood Steve and Your Pal Anna of the Hellrankers podcast join Corrigan to discuss an 18th century alleged butt stabber, cryptids, a HUGE murder debunking, and more!

Highlights:

[0:00] Steve and Anna tell Corrigan about the butt stabbin’ menace known as the London Monster
[40:40] We discuss monster theory, cryptids, conspiracy theory, and what a gigantic weirdo RFK Jr. is.
[54:00] We introduce Steve and Anna’s podcast, Hellrankers!
[66:30] CoRri found out some wild news about famous serial killer H.H. Holmes this week, and we talk about why we often get history so wrong
[93:30] What we watched! (All the Back to the Futures, Wild Wild West, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Attack of the Killer Donuts, Deadware, Twister, Raising Arizona, Hot Rod, Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar, The Palm Royale, Butterfly Kisses)

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There’s nothing Marko loves more than a good bit of brain weirdness, so this week he tells Corrigan about Anton-Babinski syndrome: A rare disorder where your eyes can see but your brain can’t.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about Anton-Babinski Syndrome
[28:20] Mark asks ChatGPT to describe Jack of All Graves. The results might surprise you! Plus, CoRri’s birthday is coming up, Mark’s going to Bulgaria, and we have a chat about terrible brand names
[44:55] Watch-along coming up so send us your NYC horror recommendations! It’s almost our anniversary and Steve and Anna of Hellrankers are coming to ‘cast with Corrigan next week!
[58:10] New Elm Street 4k coming, we’re into Fede things, and what we watched! (Alien: Romulus, Waterworld, Trap, Back to the Future)
[1:28:00] Mark speedruns through a list of mildly troubling questions for CoRri to answer

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It’s been a wild week and a half, and we had some technical difficulties in the back half of this ep, but we’re here to bring you another courtroom drama as Marko tells the story of the multiple sham trials of Kathleen Folbigg. (Content Warning: This story deals with the deaths of several infants)

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It’s fire season in the U.S. of A. so Corrigan tells Marko about one of the most famous fires in U.S. history: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the Great Chicago Fire
[37:08] Mark broke his face
[46:00] We’re definitely getting tattoos and you should get on our Discord if you’d like to come visit us in September!
[51:25] Corrigan convinces Marko he’ll like a sport
[62:08] What we watched! (Ghoulies, Ghoulies 2, Starship Troopers, The Passing (Yr Ymadawiad), Monster Mash, The Running Man, Hackers, Deadpool and Wolverine
[90:00] Mark has questions about Project 2025

Stuff we referenced:

• What (or Who) Caused the Great Chicago Fire? | Smithsonian
• The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the ‘Great Rebuilding’
• What Really Started the Great Chicago Fire? | The New Yorker
• Chicago’s Great Fire, 150 Years Later | Smithsonian
• Chicago on Fire | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
• The Great Chicago Fire | The Great Chicago Fire & The Web of Memory
• The Great Chicago Fire, As Told By Those Who Lived Through It – Chicago Magazine
• The Great Chicago Fire | Chicago Stories | WTTW Chicago
• Featured Document Display: 150 Years Ago: The Great Chicago Fire | National Archives Museum
• An eyewitness account of the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History